Dir: Deepa Mehta, India, 146 mins, Cert: 12A, Language English/Hindi.
Starring: Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor, Shabana Azmi
Based on Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel and combining historical fiction with dark fantasy, the story centres on Saleem Sinai, born at the stroke of midnight on the eve of India's independence from Britain. As a child, he discovers he has the power to communicate with the hundreds of children around the nation born that night, and that each of them possess a magical power. The strongest of these is Shiva, an angry, impoverished youth whose fate is inextricably linked to Saleem – Calgary International Film Festival 2012.
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